024 -- Changing Images of Man, Part One: The Future of Futurism

In this episode we start a four part series on the book Changing Images of Man, which is a wild 70s brainstorming session on how to shape the future of humanity by shaping how humans see themselves. In this episode we delve into the earliest roots of the ideas at play and look at how a number of seemingly unrelated movements and trends intersect during the Long Seventies and are synthesized in this study, including futurism, economics, environmentalism, cybernetics, ecology, and general systems theory. 

Source List:

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Malthus, Thomas R.. An Essay On the Principle of Population. 1798.

Wells, H.G.. The Open Conspiracy: Blue Prints for a World Revolution. London: Hogarth Press, 1930.

Wells, H.G.. A Modern Utopia. 1905.

Turner, Fred. From Counterculture to Cyberculture. University of Chicago Press, 2010.

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